Modern Vampires of the City
Growing older feels strange and beautiful at the same time. MVOTC is one of my favorites of the year so far.

Growing older feels strange and beautiful at the same time. MVOTC is one of my favorites of the year so far.

Brian Murnion is a filmmaker, creative director, poet, and self-proclaimed intellectual scrub from Billings, Montana. He spends an unreasonable amount of time obsessing over the connective tissue between music, film, literature, and whatever else seems culturally or aesthetically significant at any given moment. His curation process is equal parts curiosity, fixation, and blind luck, driven by the irrational hope that brilliance is hiding in plain sight somewhere in the chaos.
A police tank topples off a bridge in Egypt.
The best film of 2013 is out on DVD and we highly recommend it. Directed by our favorite modern film director, Carlos Reygadas. Also, see his masterpiece film “Silent Light“, 2007.
Birth follows a woman who is preparing to move on with her life after her husband’s death, when a ten-year-old boy appears and calmly insists that he is her husband reincarnated. I first saw this film in 2004, alone, late at night, at the Lagoon Theater in Uptown, Minneapolis. I remember wondering what sort of…
Pan Am ads fly high and still look great 50+ years later. Imagine creating something that would have a shelf life greater than a few years, not built around something gimmicky, but genuinely great. I think about this every waking minute of my life. One of my goals as a producer and director is to create…
things we like.
His voice carried the quiet truth that even broken things can shine. Born in Montreal on September 21, 1934. Died in Los Angeles on November 7, 2016.